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Never engage, delete as spam, block, move on.

> People are absolutely _COOKED_ unless equipped with healthy suspicion

Chinese Criminals Made More Than $1 Billion From Those Annoying Texts - https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/url-scam-texts-china-... | https://archive.today/brqTS - October 14th, 2025

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thanks for the links, +1, and naturally good advice in general

personally I will engage when I'm curious about the angle. today's lesson is you can send a jpg that entirely disrupts/ends the script. they called me a slur and ended there, almost making you doubt the bot at all. interesting, that's why i can't help myself at times

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